Start making sense: Compensatory responses to control- and meaning threats

Authors	B.T. Rutjens
Supervisors	J. van der Pligt
Cosupervisors	F. van Harreveld
Award date	15-06-2012
ISBN	9789461912381
Number of pages	203
Organisations	Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract	This dissertation focuses on how people make sense of a world that can appear random, uncontrollable, and meaningless. To cope with such threatening perceptions, people actively pursue compensation by drawing from secular, scientific, and religious belief systems that help to restore order and meaning in life.
Document type	PhD thesis
Note	Kurt Lewin Institute dissertation series 2012-12 Research conducted at: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Language	English
Downloads	Thesis Cover Title pages Contents Introduction and overview Chapter 1: Deus or Darwin: Randomness and belief in theories about the origin of life Chapter 2: Steps, stages, and structure: Finding compensatory order in scientific theories Chapter 3: Yes we can: Belief in progress as compensatory control Chapter 4: Questioning scientific progress fosters sustainable behavior Chapter 5: Things will get better: Belief in progress as an existential anxiety-buffer Chapter 6: On cannibals and cutlery: Belief in moral versus technological progress as a shield against existential threat General discussion References Summary Samenvatting Titles in the Kurt Lewin Institute dissertation series
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